The Water Is Wide

A Memoir

Biography & Memoir, Reference, Literary, Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching
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Author: Pat Conroy ISBN: 9781453203903
Publisher: Open Road Media Publication: August 31, 2010
Imprint: Open Road Media Language: English
Author: Pat Conroy
ISBN: 9781453203903
Publisher: Open Road Media
Publication: August 31, 2010
Imprint: Open Road Media
Language: English

New York Times Bestseller: The “miraculous” memoir of an inspiring teacher and the students who changed his life on an impoverished South Carolina island (Newsweek).
 
Though the children of Yamacraw Island live less than two miles from the southern mainland, they can’t name the US president or the ocean that surrounds them. Most can’t read or write. Many of the students are the descendants of slaves, handicapped by poverty and isolation.
 
When Pat Conroy arrives, an eager young teacher at the height of the civil rights movement, he finds a community still bound by the bitter effects of racism, but he is determined to broaden its members’ horizons and give them a voice.
 
In this poignant memoir, which Newsweek called “an experience of joy,” the *New York Times–*bestselling author of The Prince of Tides plumbs his experiences as a young teacher on an isolated South Carolina island to reveal the shocking inequalities of the American education system.

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New York Times Bestseller: The “miraculous” memoir of an inspiring teacher and the students who changed his life on an impoverished South Carolina island (Newsweek).
 
Though the children of Yamacraw Island live less than two miles from the southern mainland, they can’t name the US president or the ocean that surrounds them. Most can’t read or write. Many of the students are the descendants of slaves, handicapped by poverty and isolation.
 
When Pat Conroy arrives, an eager young teacher at the height of the civil rights movement, he finds a community still bound by the bitter effects of racism, but he is determined to broaden its members’ horizons and give them a voice.
 
In this poignant memoir, which Newsweek called “an experience of joy,” the *New York Times–*bestselling author of The Prince of Tides plumbs his experiences as a young teacher on an isolated South Carolina island to reveal the shocking inequalities of the American education system.

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